-
Sir Edward Henry, an Inspector General of Police in Bengal, India, develops the first system of classifying
fingerprints. This system of classifying fingerprints. -
Sir William Herschel, British Administrator in District in India, requires fingerprint and signatures on civil contract -
Alphonse Bertillion, a French anthropologist, devised method of body measurements to produce a formula used to classify individuals. This method of classifying and identifying people became known as the Bertillion System. -
Juan Vucetich, Argentine Police Official, Initiated the fingerprinting of criminals, (First case used was the Rojas
Homicide in 1892, in which the print of a woman who murdered her two sons and cut her own throat in an attempt to
place the blame on another person was found on a door post) -
Sir Francis Galton, a British Anthropologist and cousin to Charles Darwin, publishes the first book on fingerprints. -
International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Establish National Bureau of Criminal Identification, for the
exchange of arrest information -
The William West – Will West Case at a Federal Prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, changed the way that people
were classified and identified -
The first official fingerprint card was developed -
U.S. Military adopts the use of fingerprints – soon thereafter, police agencies began to adopt the use of
fingerprints